Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-02-02
Communicated
THE BAY RIDGE DRIVE.

MIR. EDIIOks-l Walke0 O4cE tue /
road leading from Back Creek
bridge to Bay Ridge, that ito be
built by the "Young mefs I'm
provement Association" It is
expected that this road will be a
short road to Bay Ridge; that it
will, SO to speak, bring Annapolis
to its very doors, and viii be too
lovely for anything. 1t is to have
the grandest-the most beautiful
the most sublime-and the most
magnificent views of the Chesapeake
Bay and its tributaries. 1t is to be
bounded on the one side by the
Chesapeake Bay and on the other
side by its tributaries. The tribn-
taries are composed of frog ponds
mostly; and, as young man re-
marked, "there would be no fun, a
counting, in buggy whilst on the
road, from the active attacks of the
festive mos quitos on the one hand
and the loud-mouthed frog music on
the other, although the music Of
the frogs is so like the country, you
know. What about the cat-tails
and the wriggling snakes and the
Shiny waters and the broiling suns
and the hot sands, coupled with the
-glaring shell road? How
many years will it take to get a
shadedway, and in the meantime,
how many acres of malarial and
microscopical germs of animal and
vegetable life, are going to be breath
ed into the lungs of the human sub
iect, before those slimY ponds are
drained and filled? Oh! if ] had
the versatile brush of u painter, to-
paint those billowy hillocks of sand,
those cat-swamps of sedges, with the
flowing seas of the Chesapeake Bay
and its tributaries for back ground.
What would / not give? And then,
that bridge, which costs the tax
payer just $4,000 hard cash,
which strikes the shores. of Horn
Point at a right-angle, which gives
such a transcendental curve for the
roadway, and which gives view of
such unsurpassing grace and loVeli-
ness, that it has no parallel on this
Continent.
1t requires the eyes of painter
to observe the beauties of the road.
How / would like to be one Of
these syoung men" of Improve
.ment," that my name may be ham
ded down with them to posterity!
Yours truly
HARD CASH.
We publish the above communi-
cation because the columns of The
CAPITAL are open to the discussion
of all subjects relating to the best
interests Of our city, whether we
approve the tone Of the articles or
not. Our correspondent does not
seem tobe progressive in his views
much to his discredit.
1t is but few years since Horn
Point was an outlying farm, within
a stones throw Of Annapolis, and
yet those living upon it we're COM
PEELED to ride over neck breaking
roads several miles to reach the city.
Now that the Spa creek has been
bridged, Horn Point has become too
valuable for agricultural purposes
and thriving village has grown
up on its fields, and is rapidly adj
vancing in wealth and population.
Back creek bridge will doubtless
produce like results, as it is separa-
ted from Horn Point only by a very
narrow stream.
The satire Of our correspondent
is we think misplaced. If be had
the bright, intelligent mind Of the
painter be invokes, his vision would
be less obtuse, and he could see, not
only the advantages that would ac-
crue to the city BY the proposed
drive to Bay Ridge, but the in
creased value Of the lands through
which the road passes, and a mar
ked improvement in the healthfnl-
ness in the location.
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